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12 MAR 2018

Andalucía Digital Week

Andalucía Digital Week was born to become the main showcase of the field of new information, communication and digital contents technologies in Andalucía.

It is also a meeting point in which companies, public administrations and society in general can have the access to the latest advances, stimulating the development of its Society and Digital Economy, providing a new vision of technologies.

Perspectives about digitalization of Society and Economy to launch towards future

Digital transformation of the European society and economy, and the role of the Unique Digital Market

Lecture.Lorena Boix-Alonso, Head of Unit, Policy Implementation & Planning, DG-Connect at the European Commission

10:50 - Sala Bruselas

Spain in the digital era: Innovation for a more human future

Lecture.Jorge Barrero, General Directo at the Cotec Foundation for Innovation.

11:00

ARRIVAL OF THE KING FELIPE IV TO THE FIRST WORKSHOP OF ANDALUCÍA DIGITAL WEEK

Received by the authorities of the Spanish Government, the Junta de Andalucía, the Sevilla Town Hall and the institutions and corporations that are part of the Organizer Committee of Andalucía Digital Week.

Digitalization is the past. Europe need startups

The Andalusian ICT as a development way participating in innovation from a global level

Lecture.Víctor Fernández, President at Emergya. Partner at Google Cloud, Google Maps and G-Suit for the whole ENEA (Europe, Neart East and Africa) territory.

12:00 - Sala Bruselas

New competitiveness scenario for a global company

Lecture.Gemma Hernández, Chief Information Officer at Cosentino.

12:30 - Sala Bruselas

Digital strategy to boost the economical development and the life in cities

Lecture.Lorenzo Madrid, USA and Latin America VP at Wellness Telecom.

13:00

Break

Break

13:30 - Sala Bruselas

The digital transformation of the management of cities: case studies

Round table.
Modera: Martina Pertoldi, researcher at Joint Research Centre (European Commission). Within the European platform of intelligence specialization, she works in the urban development field.Antonio Cabello Bastida, Coordinator at Andalucía Smart and Fiware Zone from the Junta de Andalucía. He's the chief of the Coordination and Public Administration service at the Employment, Business and Commerce Council. He's in charge of different projects related to the development of innovation in the Local Administration of Andalucía, strategies, and plans for the intellectual development of its cities and municipalities, as well as achieving various programmes of boost of entrepreneurship with a technological base.Javier Bellido, Government and Public Services Manager at Vodafone in the South of Spain, boosting the implementation of numerous projects of 'smart city' in cities of Andalucía. Telecommunication Engineer and professor at the Telematic Engineering Department of the University of Seville.Joaquín Segovia, Public Administrations Chief for Andalucía, Extremadura, Ceuta and Melilla at Telefónica. He's led the digital transformation of the main customers in the public sector in the south of Spain.Rafael Selma, co-founder and co-president at Grupo Sdos. He's specialized in software and mobile apps software, both for big companies (Inditex, Vodafone, Prisa, Restalia, Día,...) and public administrations (Community of Madrid, Junta de Andalucía, Barcelona Town Hall, Seville Town Hall,...). Within the obtained awards, it's important to name the Accessible Madrid Award for his app developed for "Federación de Asociaciones de Personas con Discapacidad Física y Orgánica".Pablo Rodríguez Pappalardo, Manager of Products and Services at Berger-Levrault Spain. It's the referent company in the management software and electronic management for the Local Administration, so 3,8000 city halls and 25 diputations use its solutions for the technological modernization of their services. The French multinational Berger-Levrault incorporated Aytos, the company created in Écija which has achieved that leadership in Spain in which Pablo Rodríguez got incorporated in 1996.Antonio Galán Vázquez, Director of Smart Solutions at Ayesa. He has led important projects of IT in Ecuador such as the implementation of the economic and financial system of the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito and the Consultancy of Simplification of Proffess of the National Secretary of Public Administration. In Spain, he leads the application of the latest technologies to strategical sectors such as water, electricity and mobility.Manuel Illanes Medina, CTO at Grupo empresarial TOPdigital

14:30

Lunchtime

Lunchtime

16:00 - Sala Bruselas

HumaInt Project: The influence of algorithms in our minds and decisions

Lecture.Emilia Gómez, Professor and researcher at the University Pompeu Fabra and at Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. President of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. From JRC she performs the research project HumaInt to analyze the future impact of artificial intelligence of the cognitive capacities and the decision makers of anyone.

16:20 - Sala Bruselas

How artificial intelligence transforms society

Lecture.Patricia Urbez: General Director of Strategical Markets in Spain at Fujitsu.

16:45 - Sala Bruselas

Tecnological innovations and consumer society

Lecture.Hugo Zaragoza, In charge of the Research and Development Centre at Amazon in Barcelona and member of the innovation directory in 'machine learning' at Amazon.

17:15 - Sala Bruselas

The underpinned developments in Android technology

Lecture.Andrés L. Martínez Ortiz, Developer Program Lead at Google, promoting initiatives for developers in Spain, Europe and Latin America. He's a memeber of IEEE, Linux Foundation, ACM and the Computer Society.

Round table.Tomás Castro, Presidente de Conetic, Confederación Española de Empresas de Tecnologías de la Información, Comunicaciones y Electrónica. Alfredo García, Professor at the University Pablo de Olavide and Senior Consultor in Analytics Business for QosIT Consulting.

Impresión 3D: Aditivos aplicados del hoy y del mañana

The digital technologies as a great opportunity for integral sustainability of the rural habitat

Round table.Area: Agri
Modera: Ricardo Domínguez, vicecouncellor of Agriculture, Fishing and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucía.Concepción Macías, Project and Social Innovation Director at Almanatura. It's a social company which designs experiences of transformer learning, especially in the rural nucleus, supporting entrepreneurs, as well as solving the digital gap that affects old and disabled citizens. It's been the first Spanish company certified as Bcorp. One of the main goals is to contribute setting the rural population, avoiding the forced emigration and giving an example living in Arroyomolinos de León (Huelva), municipality with a thousand inhabitants.Juan Carlos Vega Chacón, officer of the Supply and Services Section at Dcoop, cooperative that is the major producer of olive oil internationally speaking. Awarded with the Europan Award of Cooperative Innovation in ICT-digitalization. It takes part of the IoF2020 project (Internet of Food) in the Horizonte2020 of the European Union. Dcoop integrates 150 cooperatives with the head office in Antequera (Malaga).José Luis Molina, executive president at Hispatec Group, Spanish technological company, born in Almeria, leader in solutions on ICT management for the Agri industry with more than 400 customers. It has a presence in whole Spain, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Morocco. Agricultural engineer (UPM) with an economic and management education in business schools. He has a long career in the ICT technological and innovation environment industries. Additionally, he leads the Smart Agri group of Ametic and is a counselor of the MBIT School, specialized in Big Data and Advanced Analytics.Helena Gómez McPherson, vice-director of the Sostenible Agricultural Institute (CSIC), with the head office in Cordoba, she has coordinated the expert group of European experts EIP-AGRI to define the strategies and solutions in the agricultural irrigation, joining farmers, scientists and entrepreneurs. She is a scientist with a long international career in the study of the impact in the management of irrigation of the areas of gas emission of greenhouse effect and in the sustainable intensification of the production of local crops watered to increase the food security in risk zones.

Lunchtime

La evolución del puesto de trabajo

Digitalization of traditional business models in the industry

Lecture.Área: IndustryElisa Martín Garijo, Director of Technology and Innovation at IBM in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel.
Senior architect in the technology of information, a specialist in systems of big companies, in web architectures and app integration. She's a member of the international leadership of the Academy of Technology at IBM.
As the chief architect, she developed and integrated the computing systems for the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000.
In the latest years she has participated in 'smartcity' projects for Madrid, Malaga and the metropolian area of Barcelona. She's part of the Governing Councel of the Centre of Technology associated to the National Centre of SuperComputing with head office in Barcelona.

16:15 - SALA BRUSELAS

The digitalization of the systems, processes and tools of purchase in a business

Lecture.Emilio Zambade, Head of Digital Procurement at Nokia.

16:40 - SALA PARÍS 1

Perspectives of a group of communication about the future of the industry

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and its impact on the digital transformation in businesses

Lecture.Area: IndustryVíctor Ayllón, CEO at Novayre & Jidoka. Creator of software robots for the aotmatization of business processes, technology that has been being implemented in big companies.
Important international analysts (HfS, Everest, Gartner...) include Jidoka in the RPA studies, being the only company in Spain and Latin America that appears in these reports.

17:15 - SALA PARÍS 1

The online entertainment industry as a case of digitalization

Round table.Enrique Tapias, CEO at Genera Games, creator of the multiplatform video games with own plots and audiovisual productive alliances in the cinema, television, comic, and toys (Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros., Lucasfiom, Dreamworks, Mattel, Hasbro,...). The games of Genera Games sums up to 250 millions of downloads.

17:10 - SALA BRUSELAS

Aeronautical companies responding to the challenge of diversification

Round table.Area: IndustryManuel Heredia Ortiz, CEO at Airbus in Poland.Antonio Gómez Guillamón, co-founder and general director at Aertec Solutions.Rafael Contreras, Executive President at Carbures.Jesús Estepa Bracho, general director at Atexis in Spain.

18:15

Break

18:00 - SALA BRUSELAS

Desarrollos y servicios con la tecnología blockchain

Use of technology for innovation in motor and mobility sectors

Round table.
Modera: Vicente de los Ríos, Director de los Programas de Transformación Digital de la EOI, y CEO de Líderes y Digitales.Mariano Silveyra, Director General de Cabify en España.Sergio Díez, Project Manager and founder from Seville at Hub de Movilidad Conectada.
More than 50 startups conform the Hub apart from the collaboration of 60 private and public corporates of the sector, and 50 specialized investors. Morevoer, he's also linked to Impact Hub Madrid. He works in the factory at Renault in Seville.Iván Contreras, CEO at Torrot. Torrot has created the "Velocípedo" as a new sustainable and connected electrical vehicle concept that it's going to be created in Cadiz. He's also the CEO at Skylly Technologies, an intellignet helmet for motorbikes that inclued advances such as an integrated browser.Rafael Romay, general director at Teledyne Anafocus, company created and developed from the Parte Tecnológico Cartuja. It's one of the most advanced companies at a global level in the creation of image and vision systems sensors.Paul Lubbers, founder at Cochele, the first 'car sharing' platform created in Spain.

Professional development in the cybersecurity field

Lunchtime

International examples of digitalization in High Education

Lecture.Daniel Villar Onrubia, Principal Project Lead at Disruptive
Media Learning Lab of the University of Coventry (United Kingdom).

16:00 - SALA BRUSELAS

Cases of success of companies through the supportive plans to entrepreneurship

Round Table.Area: Entrepreneur.
Modera: Silvia Rodríguez Bouzo, Directora de Financiación y Fomento Empresarial de la Agencia de Innovación y Desarrollo de Andalucía IDEA Francisco Nieto, co-founder and scientific director at NeuroDigital.Andrés Sánchez Sandaza, manager and strategy consultant at Funding Box, an international support platform for startups and innovative projects, with the head office in London. It turns the traditional calls of public trust for the support of entrepreneur and innovation into digital products. On the other hand, Adnrés Sánchez Sandaza is the founder of Humm and Tribes startups.Rafael Marañón, founder at Wavyn and MIT Social Medial Club during his period as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he could have access due to Talentia scholarship. He was born in Cartaya (Huelva), telecommunications engineer at the University of Malaga. In his stay at MIT he created the digital platform to get students, former students, professionals and linked innovative companies with each other. He's a specialist on the Internet of the things and has worked at Silicon Valley for six years, three of them at Cisco, where he developed technologies for his telecommunications portfolio, and the three left at Amazon, where he could develop the connectivity between mobile phones and televisions for Amazon Fire TV.

16:45 - SALA BRUSELAS

How detection, mentoring and investment on talent works internationally speaking, and which the strengths and weaknesses of our entrepreneurs are

Closing conference

Francisco J. Martín, Founder and CEO at Big ML. which he co-founded in 2011 in Oregon (USA), where he's lived since 2003. BigML has developed the first and most advanced platform of Machine Learning of the market. He was the founder and delegate counsellor from 2004 to 2010. Strands was the pioneer in Systems of Recommendation based on behaviours, it's the leader in software for the finantial personalised management with more than 500 banks as customers.
Furthermore, he was the founder and delegate counselor at iSOCO-Intelligent Software Components, between 1999 and 2002. iSOCO was the first 'spin-off' from the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations.
He was born in Las Navas de la Concepción in 1970, a small municipality in the North mountains in the provice of Seville.
He's the inventor of 20 patents in Recommendation Systems and Machine Learning, lots of them bought by Apple in 2011.

19:45

Closing of Andalucía Digital Week 2018 and launching of the 2019 edition